It maybe just me but 2018 is looking like an annus horibilis for Linux Distributions. Why is this? There seems to be regression in so many of the offerings so far this year especially Fedora 28, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Debian, Mint 19, Manjaro and for special mention Open Suse 15. All of those seem to have gone backwards and the one time darlings of Distributions Ubuntu and Mint are just too buggy for words. I simply cannot see how Ubuntu 18.04 was a suitable LTS candidate. Mint 19 and Fedora 28 frankly should still be in Beta as they are not fit for consumption. Sometimes missing a release date is better than releasing a train wreck.

One flavour of Buntu that stands out from the Buntu crowd is Kubuntu, this is relatively stable compared to its cousins but that is not really saying much. On my Linux boxes I have reverted to using Mint 18.3 Cinnamom the best of the bunch in my opinion, simply put it just works.

With all the gripes about Windows 10 and MacOS 2018 should have been the year that the various Distributions pulled out the stops and released the best that they could do and really show that there are viable alternatives to the Redmond and Cupertino offerings. At least Google are shining the Linux light with ChromeOS. Now others mileage may well be completely different to mine, I have written this based on my experiences with the 2018 releases to date. There is of course another round later this year lets hope the menu is more palatable.

MikeRetired IT Manager. The views stated in my posts are my personal views and not that of any other organisation.

I think I'll switch only if M$ ever pulls the DaaS sub for Windows stunt. That'd be the iron pipe that breaks the camels back and would make quite a few of my gamer friends at the very least try out SteamOS.

SpartanVXL: We'll see how win10 keeps going. I think I'll switch only if M$ ever pulls the DaaS sub for Windows stunt. That'd be the iron pipe that breaks the camels back and would make quite a few of my gamer friends at the very least try out SteamOS.

Solus has very good Steam support with full Linux integration. I'd actually recommend it over SteamOS.

SpartanVXL: We'll see how win10 keeps going. I think I'll switch only if M$ ever pulls the DaaS sub for Windows stunt. That'd be the iron pipe that breaks the camels back and would make quite a few of my gamer friends at the very least try out SteamOS.

Solus has very good Steam support with full Linux integration. I'd actually recommend it over SteamOS.

I didn't know about Solus's steam work, thanks I think i'll give this a try as well.

What's the issues with Fedora 28 as it is working really well for me on my new laptop.

Just trying out Ubuntu 18.04.1 for MythTV which appears to have a couple of niggles, but nothing serious.

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat New Zealand as a Solution Architect for all things Linux, Virtual and of course Cloud. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

I don’t want to sound harsh but Fedora 28 KDE just seemed to lack quality control. It simply isn’t good enough to throw some code together and send it to sea. The networking was poor as were the fonts and general design. In 2018 connecting something like a phone should be a no brainer. Graphics drivers are just so bad that it was like death from a thousand cuts.

The Gnome spin is better but only just. It is buggy and full of lack of attention to detail and consistency throughout the experience. Some Apps seem more inclined to crash than to work as they should which is very disappointing and on occasion the OS in general would throw in the towel.

I have been using Linux for more years than I am prepared to calculate and have used Redhat since the 90s, it is disappointing that in 2018 I have to wrestle an OS to get it to do the basics. If Mint can get it right and Kubuntu can get a KDE spin to work then Fedora with its history should be able to walk it but they seem to be talking a track to obscurity if they cannot lift their game.

MikeRetired IT Manager. The views stated in my posts are my personal views and not that of any other organisation.

Was that a clean install of the KDE spin? My home desktop is a Fedora KDE 28 machine but it was upgraded from older versions. I have not seen any of the issues you mention. It could be the fact I am still on Xorg and not Wayland so my video drivers are fine. Also have an older Nvidia card so don't need the latest driver features.